MR RHODES’ WILL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 383, 7 April 1902, Page 2

MR RHODES’ WILL.

LIBERAL PUBLIC BEQUESTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 5. Mr Cecil Rhodes’ will was dated July Ist, 1899, with codicils dated January 18th, 1902, the latter relating to family and German bequests. Tho will deals with six million pounds sterling, including two millions bequeathed for education. Regarding his final resting place he declares : “ I admire the grandeur and loneliness of the Matoppo Hills, and desire to be on the hill I called ‘ View of World.' ” Ho bequeathed four thousand annually to preserve the grave and transform the hill into a State burial ground of persons deserving well of tho country after the federation of South Africa, and for tho establishment of a Buluwayo Park. He gave two thousand pounds for irrigation, forestry, and an agricultural college in Mashonaland. His house at Grootschur is bequeathed as a residence for the Federal Premier, with a thousand per annum for the upkeep of horses, carriages, servants, and grounds. Meanwhile it is to be used as a public park. One hundred thousand pounds was left to the Oriel College. It includes forty thousand for the extension of the college buildings, and the remainder for improvements, income, comforts, fellowships, and general affairs. The will emphasised the importance of a residential system. It confers the following endowments: Sixty colonial scholarships at Oxford University, twenty to be filled annually or yearly, of the value of JE3OO, tenable for three years, by male studonts, namely, three from Rhodesia, one each from the South African, Stellenbosch, Rondebosch, Diocesan, St. Andrew’s, and Grahamstown College schools; one each from Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, West Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ontario, Newfoundland, Quebec, and Bermudas (Jamaica); two similar scholarships, ono filled yearly, to each forty-five estates of seven territories of the United States; fifteen similar scholarships of the value of £250 per annum for German students nominated by the -Kaiser, in recognition of the promotion of study of English in Germany. Mr Rhodes added : “ The good understanding of England, Germany, and America would secure the peace of the world. Educational relations are the strongest ties.” The scholarships are free from any religious or racial test. Thirty points per cent, must be awarded for literary and scholastic attainments, twenty for reports of schoolmates by successful candidates’ ballot.; thirty points for tho qualities of manhood, truth, and courage, by similar ballot ; twenty points for qualities of moral force of character, based on the report of the headmaster of the school. The total scholarships are 175.